Re: MESSAGE ID: 1EC610858

[KEVIN VAHEY <kvahey@dnsmain.vw.org>]

> > signal got worse. Rumor has it that a key Red Sox exec lived in Westwood.
> > When the upgrade to 50 kW-N still left the Sox without a signal he could
> > listen to at night, renewal of WITS' contract with the sox became a dead
> issue.
> > 

  The official was John Harrington who still lives in Westwood. Then
Harrington who was good friends with the owner of WPLM cooked up the deal
to move the "flagship" to WPLM-FM and somehow the Bruins wound up there as
well. PLM always did the Red Sox right, but the Bruins games were really
done on the cheap....(using a regular phone line from the Garden)




 

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